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15 Feb 2009
I’ve been working on something to help me with some logging activity in NoteTab and I’ll be posting a variety of useful bits and pieces from this in both this micro blog (FlagIT) and my main blog (RebootIT). As part of this I was looking at producing some date related clips which necessitated looking at some mathematical clips and notably one to determine if a number is an Integer. NoteTab is a text editor and numeric manipulations are definitely not its forte, so I needed to produce a clip function to do this.
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11 Feb 2009
I’m really enjoying the flexibility that Microsoft Live Mesh is giving me. It lets me synchronise bits and pieces between various computers and means that I can have quick and easy access to files on my home computer(s), work computer, my Windows mobile phone and even on a computer used by my sports club. It’s a bit like offline files but the Internet is your network and therefore it’s quite a bit slower to synchronise than if you’re on an office LAN for example.
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02 Feb 2009
Quite often when working on a file I want to clone it as a backup or to work on another copy to try something out. I was doing this so often and being such a lazy coder I whipped up a quick NoteTab clip to make it even easier. Run it with the file you want to duplicate open in NoteTab and it will create a duplicate in a new tab and give it the focus.
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01 Feb 2009
A little while ago I was asked by one of our finance team to see if I could help reduce the workload required in maintaining a reporting Excel spreadsheet. Along with some very specific automation amendments to the spreadsheet I also created something quite generic to allow a macro to be run against multiple worksheets in an Excel workbook.
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01 Feb 2009
NoteTab clipping uses the clip wizard functionality to produce sophisticated input dialog windows to obtain information from the user. There is however a strange view produced when looking at a single check box. The clip code shown below shows the various pieces of clip code used and below that are the discussions of the approach and options along with the screen shots of what the clip wizard produces.
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31 Jan 2009
Sometimes when testing network connectivity to a server on the local LAN or a web site I use the ubiquitous PING command to do the job. If I need to do it repeatedly I tend to write a quick DOS batch file (a text based script with a file extension of BAT or CMD).
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31 Jan 2009
Like almost everyone else with an Internet connection on the western part of our planet I use Google a lot. Today though they seem to be having problems. Everything I’m searching for seems to have an associated warning - this site may harm your computer.
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29 Jan 2009
A little clip I like to use in NoteTab is one for ensuring that I have
an empty file. I usually call it using the ^!FarClip command from a
standard library before I dump out the results of something where I
always want it to be separate.
27 Jan 2009
When working with NoteTab clips I like to be efficient and reuse clips just like programmers do with functions, subroutines, code libraries, etc. So one little thing I like to use when dealing with some clips is a conditional statement that allows the clip to work out if it was called from another clip with a parameter.
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25 Jan 2009
Microsoft have relatively recently launched their new “mobile tagging” beta programme. It’s quite similar to the existing QR codes that have been around for some time and it was for this reason that it caught my attention and I decided to give Microsoft Tag an evaluation in comparison to QR codes.
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